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... impersonal emotion, as a man might consider a case in which he had no immediate concern, I studied their faces while one by one they filed into the box. The anxiety had been so great and so prolonged that I rejoiced it was at length coming to its end, ...

— Doctor Therne • H. Rider Haggard

... that we are bound to find our own way through it, and to owe our insight to ourselves. The historians of former ages, unapproachable for us in knowledge and in talent, cannot be our limit. We have the power to be more rigidly impersonal, disinterested and just than they; and to learn from undisguised and genuine records to look with remorse upon the past, and to the future with assured hope of better things; bearing this in mind, that if we lower our standard in history, we cannot ...

— A Lecture on the Study of History • Lord Acton

... exhibition on my part and did not wish me to attend your combat. He says now that I shall go to no more. I certainly made myself ridiculous. I enjoy a fair fight, whatever the outcome may be, but I despise murder. My act was entirely impersonal, Sir Count." ...

— Yolanda: Maid of Burgundy • Charles Major

... Yet through all this impersonal interchange love shone out to love like lamplight through the blinds of two opposite closed windows, and every heart-hiding letter bore enough interlinear revealment of mind and character to keep mutual admiration glowing ...

— Kincaid's Battery • George W. Cable

... of girls have the will to become acquainted it does not take them long to do so. Almost immediately a buzz of animated impersonal ...

— Jane Allen: Right Guard • Edith Bancroft

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